Research
Our center faculty are involved in a wide spectrum of research projects from the prehospital setting to rehabilitation and encompassing both unintentional and intentional injuries. Some of our active projects include:
- Improved prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injuries
- Community-based child maltreatment interventions
- Screening for intimate partner violence in emergency department patients
- Prevention of PTSD in trauma patients using imaginal exposure
- Using virtual reality to prevent PTSD in Iraq war veterans
- Prevention of bullying in school aged children
- Primary prevention of elder falls
- Determining the economic cost of injuries
- Development of prehospital trauma care guidelines for developing countries
- Suicidal prevention in African American women
- Evaluation of car seat programs
- World Health Organization Helmet Initiative
- Unintentional poisonings
- Using computer kiosk interventions to decrease substance abuse and partner violence
- Developing international public health surveillance systems and trauma registries